Hi!

This may have already been discovered. When picking fruit from the orchard, as soon as the fruit has been picked it counts towards food. You dont have to wait till it gets put into the food bin!!! So, as soon as the farmer picks the food put him right back on the tree over and over and get food waaaay faster!

Awesome! I totally didn't know that!! Thanks for discovering it

Wow. I didn't know you could do that. This will REALLY help in one of my tribes. Thanks, tahoe!

Woot!! Woot!! Thanks everyone!! So glad I could help! YAY! I stocked up on food so fast. It went from 497 to 1167 in 8 minutes!!

I had noticed as soon as a villager picks the frut from the tree, it adds to the food before its taken to the food bin, but I never thought about doing that of picking up villager back on the tree, that is one way of him/her getting a farming skill to master farmer fast and food.

While it might be a good trick for when food has fallen to below 300 and villagers are dropping work in order to "worry" about it, it doesn't seem like it's necessary to spend time getting your food into the thousands. There is only so much food on the tree. Whether they get it fast or slow doesn't make any difference. You're not going to get more than what is actually there to get.

I agree with Tuna, here - it only takes one to strip a tree completely.

Remember that the food is both deducted from the tree and added to the bin, so you don't have to worry about 'losing' food by distacting a villager.

In addition, the honey works the opposite way - food is not deducted from the hive, or added to the bin, until they make the delivery.

thanks for discovering that so much!

It's a very good discovery, and as harryfan said, will help some of my beginner tribes

Wow! We had "Speed Kissing" and now we have "Speed Picking Fruit"!!

and if there only enough honey for 1 trip put every1 on it and every1 gets one.

Oo!!! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL Thats really funny laurence!

Its cool, its cool. I realize that it doesn't help them earn farming skill as fast and I know that it only takes one person to strip a tree down. Thats why I didnt say put all the folks on one tree. Um, to those that thought it was cool, great! Im glad you saw the value in it. Nothing less nothing more!

Geesh, I'm out...

Actually, they SHOULD earn farming skills faster, since they're succeeding at the task and returning to try again sooner.